NEW YORK — “Two and a Half Men” creator Chuck Lorre introduced Ashton Kutcher as a new star of television’s most popular comedy on Monday, and gained a measure of revenge against the departed Charlie Sheen in the process.

How Sheen’s character Charlie Harper would be killed off was a closely-held secret and it was revealed right away during the season premiere: he slipped on a subway platform in Paris and 계룡출장안마 was hit by an oncoming train.

“His body just exploded like a balloon full of meat,” Harper’s obsessed neighbor Rose explained.

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The episode aired as a real-life drama played out: Sheen and the studio that fired him were apparently drawing closer to a deal to end their legal dispute.